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    Fats Waller was an American jazz pianist and organist who learned to play the organ in church from his preacher father. He won a talent contest in 1918 playing a James P. Johnson song. In the 1920s, Waller wrote music for Broadway shows including co-writing songs with Johnson and composing the score for "Hot Chocolates." He unexpectedly died of pneumonia in 1943 while on a train in Kansas City.

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    Fats Waller was an American jazz pianist and organist who learned to play the organ in church from his preacher father. He won a talent contest in 1918 playing a James P. Johnson song. In the 1920s, Waller wrote music for Broadway shows including co-writing songs with Johnson and composing the score for "Hot Chocolates." He unexpectedly died of pneumonia in 1943 while on a train in Kansas City.

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    Fats Waller was an American jazz pianist and organist who learned to play the organ in church from his preacher father. He won a talent contest in 1918 playing a James P. Johnson song. In the 1920s, Waller wrote music for Broadway shows including co-writing songs with Johnson and composing the score for "Hot Chocolates." He unexpectedly died of pneumonia in 1943 while on a train in Kansas City.

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    Fats Waller

    Matthew Gualtieri
    BIO Early
    ● Fats Waller was the son of a preacher and learned
    to play the organ in church with his mother.
    ● In 1918 he won a talent contest playing James P.
    Johnson's Carolina Shout which he learned from
    watching a pianola play the song.
    BIO midlife
    ● In 1927 he co-wrote a couple of tunes with his old
    piano teacher James P. Johnson for his show "Keep
    Shufflin'".
    ● Two years later Waller wrote the score for the
    Broadway hit "Hot Chocolates"
    ● Fats' most famous song, "Ain't Misbehavin'" was
    introduced in this show which featured Louis
    Armstrong.
    BIO End
    ● Waller's death in 1943.
    ● The group consisted of around half a dozen
    musicians who worked with him regularly, including
    Zutty Singleton.
    ● He unexpectedtly died on board a train near Kansas
    City, Missouri of pneumonia in 1943.
    MUSIC
    MUSIC
    Contemorary
    ● His father really influenced him by being a priest
    Work Cited
    ● http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_waller_fats.h
    ● http://www.fatswaller.org/
    ●

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